Sugar too sweet for men.A Lausanne University study says men have more trouble with sugar than women. The sexes appear to differ in how they metabolise Verb 1. metabolise - produce by metabolism metabolize high levels of fructose fructose (frŭk`tōs), levulose (lĕv`yəlōs'), or fruit sugar, simple sugar found in honey and in the fruit and other parts of plants. , a simple sugar commonly used to sweeten sweet·en v. sweet·ened, sweet·en·ing, sweet·ens v.tr. 1. To make sweet or sweeter by adding sugar, honey, saccharin, or another sweet substance. 2. To make more pleasant or agreeable. drinks and foods. A short-term intake of fructose among young men resulted in increased blood fats and increased insulin resistance Insulin Resistance Definition Insulin resistance is not a disease as such but rather a state or condition in which a person's body tissues have a lowered level of response to insulin, a hormone secreted by the pancreas that helps to regulate the level , factors associated with an elevated risk for cardiovascular disease Cardiovascular disease Disease that affects the heart and blood vessels. Mentioned in: Lipoproteins Test cardiovascular disease and type-2 diabetes, said Dr. Luc Tappy and his colleagues at the Lausanne University School of Biology and Medicine. The study enlisted 16 healthy, non-smoking men and women of normal weight and about 23 years of age, to follow two different six-day diets separated by a four-week washout washout to disperse or empty by flooding with water or other solvent. medullary solute washout a syndrome in which the relative hyperosmolarity of the renal medulla is reduced due to an excessive loss of sodium and chloride from period. The eight men and eight women did not participate in any sports or exercise while following either the control diet or the diet that included a lemon-flavoured drink containing 3.5 grams of fructose-a sugar-load equivalent to several litres of soda per day, Tappy said. In men, the fructose supplement caused significant increases in 11 of the 12 factors, including a 5.0 per cent increase in fasting glucose and a 71 per cent increase in blood-fat levels. By contrast, women showed a 4.0 per cent increase in glucose and a "markedly blunted", 16 per cent increase in fats in the blood after the high fructose diet, the study said. Overall, the women showed significant increases in only four out of the 12 factors tested. |
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